[CMake] Documentation does not include --check-build-system

[J Decker]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Alexander Neundorf
<a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 November 2011, J Decker wrote:
>> I don't find any documentation on the command that cmake uses with a
>> cmake -E --check-build-system .... Does this option happen to set any
>> specific cmake variable indicating that it is doing a check build?
>>
>> I'm inquiring and I saw a post about it before
>> http://www.kwwidgets.org/Bug/view.php?id=2133   (closed)
>>
>> about someone saying it might be nice to be able to bypass the
>> cmake_check_build_system rule in the makefile.
>>
>> I would like to make building this project a single click interface.
>> - in the cmake script I can define some options to build all, install
>> or package during the configure.  But if I do, then the first thing
>> that is done is the cmake script is processed again (which it already
>> was), which triggers the make again, which calls cmake, etc.  I could
>> test to see if's a phase that isn't --check-build-system and do the
>> command?
>>
>> Also I think I'd really just like to be the last thing done on a
>> 'generate' in the cmake-gui (not entirely sure what the difference is
>> between configure and generate).
>
> "Configure" basically processes the CMakeLists.txt, "Generate" then generates
> the Makefiles/project files.
>

Right; but there's apparently no way for a script to know if it is
being configured or generated?  - or build-checked?

> Alex
>